Free Read: New Issue of Foucault Studies on Deleuze and Foucault

The latest issue of Foucault Studies, an open-access journal, is now out! This issue, entitled “Foucault and Deleuze,” seeks to tackle the “critical deficit” in academia on the relationship between Deleuze and Foucault’s work.

Foucault and Deleuze were prominent figures in the French intellectual scene at the same time. The two had formed a friendship and were even known to attend political protests together. However, the two had grown distant over the years, and Foucault had privately taken issue with Deleuze’s work. Foucault had wished to reconcile with Deleuze when his health began to fail him, but he died before the two could meet again.

After Foucault’s death in 1984, Deleuze began “writing and lecturing a book about Foucault’s philosophical corpus immediately.” Deleuze’s lectures on Foucault were recently released (in French) and total over 1,600 pages when transcribed. Those lectures are currently being translated into English for the very first time.

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The editors mention in the introduction to the issue that the ‘transcribed lectures on Foucault are over 400,000 words long (1600 pages)’ and that your ‘team [undertook] a transcription of Deleuze’s seminar on Foucault […] completed by Annabelle Dufourcq in 2013 and […] now available on the Paris 8 website as well as our parallel site at Purdue’.

But I’ve reached some of the later seminars, namely starting from ‘Le Pouvoir cours 11 – 21/01/1986 – 1’ up to the final ‘Le Pouvoir cours 22 – 06/05/1986 – 4’, and the French transcriptions are simply not available online, nor in the Paris 8 website nor at Purdue’s (with the sole exception being ‘Le Pouvoir cours 13 – 25/02/1986 – 1’).

I was wondering if someone could clarify for me if the French transcriptions are momentarily not available due to some technical problems at both websites or if those specific transcriptions are still being made.